The 268 parliament members current on Tuesday voted unanimously in assist of the Ukrainian president.
Ukraine’s parliament has overwhelmingly authorized a decision affirming the legitimacy of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s keep in workplace, asserting the constitutionality of deferring the presidential election whereas the nation is at conflict.
The 268 parliament members current on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve the decision, whereas 12 different MPs weren’t current in the course of the session.
The decision was designed by the parliamentary management as a symbolic present of assist for Zelenskyy, whose common time period in workplace led to Might.
Final week, US President Donald Trump had accused Zelenskyy of being a “dictator” since he has not held elections lately, echoing claims beforehand made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Nonetheless, beneath Ukrainian legislation, elections can’t be held so long as a state of martial legislation persists throughout the nation. Martial legislation was declared following the Russian invasion in February 2022.
“The Verkhovna Rada as soon as once more recollects that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected in free, clear, democratic elections. His mandate shouldn’t be known as into query by the Ukrainian folks or the Verkhovna Rada,” the decision learn.
The doc additionally referred to Article 108 of the Ukrainian structure, based on which the incumbent head of state stays in energy till the following elected president takes workplace.
Ukrainian Parliament unanimously votes to affirm President Zelensky’s legitimacy and the constitutionally mandated requirement that stops elections throughout martial legislation.
268 YES
0 NO
12 NOT PRESENT pic.twitter.com/WHUMH3XLx7— SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre (@StratcomCentre) February 25, 2025
Trump had additionally claimed that the Ukrainian chief had solely a 4 p.c “approval ranking” in polls, repeating stories from Russian media.
However based on a survey carried out this month by the Kyiv Worldwide Institute of Sociology, Zelenskyy has a 57 percent approval rating.
Even when that is down from the 90 p.c peak simply after Russia’s invasion it is a signal that Zelenskyy is “sustaining his legitimacy”, the institute stated.
Tuesday’s vote within the Ukrainian parliament was a reversal from a day earlier, throughout which the decision obtained 218 votes, falling eight votes shy of the brink 226 votes wanted to go.
Zelenskyy has to this point been in a position to depend on shifting majorities in parliament to go laws, as sufficient members of parliament from his personal occasion will not be at all times current.
With out parliamentary assist, worldwide agreements equivalent to a potential peace treaty with Russia or a proposed uncooked supplies settlement with the US can’t be ratified and are available into power.
